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New Delhi: Ace rally driver Gaurav Gill on Tuesday expressed his disappointment as the Rally of Australia was cancelled, owing to the bush fire around New South Wales.

Bhavnagar: Haryana reigned supreme as Soumyajit Ghosh, claimed his first title in three years, while Sutirtha Mukherjee, also her first this season, in the UTT National Ranking (Central Zone) Table Tennis Championships at the SAG Sports Complex here today.

New Delhi: Asian Games champion Saurabh Chaudhary had to be content with a for silver in the 10m Air Pistol competition 14th Asian Shooting Championship in Qatar, as his finals world record score was erased by gold winning North Korean Kim Song Guk by 0.2 points.

Mumbai: Thirty international and domestic racers including Mathias Lauda, Arjun Maini and Gaurav Gill were drafted by six teams for the inaugural edition of the X1 Racing League, powered by JK Tyre Motorsports.at a much anticipated drivers draft which was held here on Monday.

New Delhi: Ace rally driver Gaurav Gill will be seen in action as he returns to the Rally of Australia, the final round of the FIA World Rally Championship this weekend.

The sudden release of the former Brazilian President Lula by the Supreme Court on November 8, has imparted a fresh dimension to the current Left-Right battle in Latin America which is undergoing a severe political turmoil in the recent months. The Supreme Court verdict came as a surprise but it gave a big boost to the opposition Workers Party (PT) in Brazil in stepping up fight against the rightist President Jair Bolsonaro who could only win the presidency in 2018 elections because of Lula being in prison. Apart, the left forces in other countries of the region Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and Peru have got a big morale boost following the release of the most favourite Left leader in Latin America.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s stand on the UAPA issue has been vindicated with the party coming round to his view that the State Police was right in slapping the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on the two CPI(M) workers arrested for their Maoist connections.

It is a pure case of misuse of power. Police officers using their official status and powers to protect their political masters has been a common practice in a developing country, but the police watchdog using its authority to freeze investigation into Jennifer Arcuri scandal case in Britain where the British prime minister Boris Johnson is seeking electoral mandate on Brexit has come as a rude shock.

Now that article 370 is abrogated, Ayodhya dispute settled, triple talaq law is formalised, BJP’s principal promises have all been fulfilled. What next? Once the current rainbow dusts also disappear over all these, BJP will face an existential crisis?

Twenty years after the corporatisation of the strategic operational division of the government’s Department of Telecommunication (DoT) as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) by the then BJP-led government, under Atal Behari Vajpayee, the present government is planning to corporatise a part of another department, the Railways. It is engaged in production of rolling stocks, including coaches, wheels and engines. The unplanned corporatisation of telecom department operation, which witnessed the transfer of some two lakh government employees to the corporate body, BSNL, is now faced with a kind of financial disaster. BSNL, with 1,74,216 employees till 2018, spent Rs. 14,488 crore on its employees’ salary account out of its total revenue of Rs. 19,308 crore, last year. The company incurred a loss of around Rs. 14,000 crore.